poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. — Lead mill, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.
— Lead ocher (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as Massicot. — Lead pencil,
a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). — Lead plant (Bot.), a low leguminous
plant, genus Amorpha found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to
indicate lead ore. Gray. — Lead tree. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous
tree, Leucæna glauca; — probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead
crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in
lead acetate. — Mock lead, a miner's term for blende. — Red lead, a scarlet, crystalline, granular
powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is
used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. — Red lead ore (Min.), crocoite.
— Sugar of lead, acetate of lead. — To arm the lead, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding
lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. Ham. Nav.
Encyc. — To cast, or heave, the lead, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water.
— White lead, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used
as an ingredient of white paint.
Lead
(Lead), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Leading.]
1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
2. (Print.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
Lead
(Lead) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Led (led); p. pr. & vb. n. Leading.] [OE. leden, AS. l&aemacrdan
(akin to OS. ledian, D. leiden, G. leiten, Icel. leiða, Sw. leda, Dan. lede), properly a causative fr.
AS. liðan to go; akin to OHG. lidan, Icel. liða, Goth. leiþan Cf. Lode, Loath.]
1. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact or connection; as, a father
leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch.
Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.)
They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill.
Luke iv. 29.
In thy right hand lead with thee
The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
Milton. 2. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to
show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to
instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way.
Ex. xiii. 21.
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
Ps. xxiii. 2.
This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask.
Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Milton. 3. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring
party, or a search; to lead a political party.
Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess
places.
South.
